Present Weather symbols Plots of station data may include one of
the following symbols to represent the present weather. METARs may
include more than one type of weather condition but only one icon ever
gets plotted. Two additional documents show the original descriptions
abridged from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and which
symbol is plotted for each present weather text string. These are not
necessarily official but they represent our best matching of weather
conditions to the original WMO table of icons.
Original WMO table and abridged descriptions of symbols:wxSymbols_anno1.pdf
(291 KB).
Text string for present weather found in METARs mapped to icons and
plotting priority order:wxSymbols_anno2.pdf
(313 KB).